anyone else getting homepage hijack software installed after visiting renderosity or is it just me, twice in two days!! Pain in the rear to remove as well :(

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Message edited on: 06/22/2004 20:33

Message edited on: 06/22/2004 20:35

I seriously doubt it's Renderosity that's changing the home page. But... free stuff is hosted on all kinds of servers, with all kinds of "spyware" on it. An admin here may be running blocker-software and may not catch the spyware. Or the admins may have caught the spyware but haven't noticed it yet. But, you click on the item to go to that user's "free host" site and you catch the spyware. I had warned about "free hosts" before. The companies used to provide the free hosting because they were supported by banner and pop-up ads. But since so many people use pop-up blockers, there's no more revenue in those types of ads. What do the companies do? They make deals with "spyware" companies and give users this kind of offer: "We offer free hosting, provided you hijack the homepage setting of every one of your visitors." Many users stop reading the fine print after the words "free hosting".

CWShredder is good too, just got rid of my homepage highjack.

Number 1 GET RID OF MICRO$OFT'S CRAPPY VIRUS-BROWSER!.....Second.Enable Your pop-up blockers, and DISABLE Java! If You want to surf-virus free You should go with Opera(R)<---;^)